Job Abstract

Your Opportunity as the Senior Analyst, VMI

This role will serve as the buyer for retail customers across various channels, managing a daily process to analyze data to effectively monitor and replenish customer inventory. This includes forecasting, creating purchase orders, reporting, and problem solving. You will work with internal and external partners to meet customer needs and make decisions in the best interest of both the customer and Smucker. This position requires an individual to be both highly personable to handle customer interaction, as well as detail-oriented and analytical to execute against goals.

Location: Orrville, Corporate Offices

Work Arrangements: Hybrid, 30% in office expectations

In this role you will:

• Review customer inventory levels daily and generate purchase orders as needed to fulfill demand and minimize retail lost sales.

• Analyze historical sales volume of promotional events and seasonal demand to forecast customer demand of finished good products. Analyze customer demand trends to help drive production planning and product deployment across the Smucker distribution network.

• Build strong partnerships with customers by adhering to customer driven initiatives, while identifying process improvement opportunities to benefit both the customer and Smucker.

• Determine item EOQs (Economic Order Quantities) to minimize both customer and Smucker warehouse handling costs, while balancing customer inventory turn goals.

• Determine appropriate safety stock levels for items to balance customer service level and inventory goals.

• Maintain and report customer inventory levels needed to make strategic Sales and Marketing decisions. Maintain customer Supply Chain scorecard information to monitor KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and provide the root cause and corrective action when goals are not met.

• Support warehousing and transportation cost reductions by following order lead times, while maintaining customer order cycle time goals to minimize inventory.

• Identifying cost savings and opportunities that drives continuous improvement benefiting Smucker and the customer through data analysis.

• Manage a combination of daily responsibilities and special projects to support current business activities and needs.

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 3 years of related business experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills to achieve effective communication (both written and verbal)

• Ability to organize information and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines in time sensitive situations

• Analytical skills to develop and support action plans for achieving customer goals

• Problem-solving skills needed in managing complex business situations

• Ability to display indirect leadership across other functional areas to accomplish customer goals

• Proficient computer skills, and ability to learn new systems quickly

• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills (V-Lookup, Pivot Table, Formulas)

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role:

• Consumer Packaged Goods experience

• Data visualization tool experience (Spotfire, Tableau)

• Career interest in the Supply Chain field

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Our Total Rewards Benefits Program

• Our Thriving Together Philosophy Supporting All Impacted by Our Business 

• Our Continued Progress on Inclusion, Diversity and Equity 

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